Does Our Education Prepare Us for Jobs We'll Hate?

Sir Ken Robinson, author of The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, is one of the under the radar speakers who worked a lot of people into a tizzy at last week's TED Conference in Long Beach, California. The thrust of his talk: Our education systems are steering kids away from their passions by creating test-taking automatons who we think will become working stiffs rather than visionary thinkers, creators, or innovators.